Tvvats like this never back up what they say in person, so if they are being arses you call them right back and when they don’t pick up reply all saying you’ve left a message and suggesting a call rather than email to sort it out. That way you actually do get to sort it out, and make it clear the other person is an arse, and appear to everyone else as a good egg.

"If you wait by the river long enough, your enemy will have time to disappear into the jungle, sneak round the back and creep up on you, catch you nodding and push you off the cliff into the raging torrent and your anus will snag on upturned branch just to make the point".